Liaison Psychiatry Senior Clinical Practitioner
| Posting date: | 16 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | Pembury, TN2 4QJ |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7241065/380-WK0285 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
Join ourWest Kent Liaison Psychiatry Serviceas aLiaison Psychiatry Senior PractitioneratTunbridge Wells Hospital. This dynamic role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide vital hospital-based mental health care within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
You'll be responsible for urgent and routine referrals, complex assessments, and managing diverse mental health needs in a general hospital setting. A key part of the role involves teaching and supporting acute hospital colleagues to enhance their mental health understanding and promote holistic care. You'll also ensure service targets and quality standards are met, utilizing IT systems for documentation.
We're seeking a proactive, collaborative individual committed to quality improvement, who embodiespatient-centred care, compassion, empathy, respect, and dignity. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals experiencing mental health challenges, we encourage you to apply.
• As a crucial Liaison Psychiatry team member, you'll combine expert clinical practice with leadership.
• You'll assess and respond to acute hospital referrals, adhering to CORE24 standards (1-hour triage, 4-hour full assessment).
• Your responsibilities include comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments for various mental health conditions.
• You'll manage complex caseloads of clients with co-morbid physical and mental illnesses.
• Expert risk assessment and management, including safeguarding processes, are essential.
• You'll also address situations where social needs outweigh mental or physical health needs, coordinating care plans.
• A key aspect is providing specialist assessment and intervention for adults (18+) with co-morbid illness.
• You'll act as an educational resource, offering training, and advice to acute hospital staff and liaison psychiatry colleagues on mental health crises in all age groups
• You'll foster close working relationships with acute hospital teams and Kent and Medway Partnership Trust.
• You'll provide clinical supervision for Band 6 practitioners and support their development.
• You'll also assist in leading change processes for LPS accreditation and CORE24 service delivery
• You'll lead in a specific clinical area (e.g., neurodiversity, substance misuse, dementia/delirium, self-harm)
• You'll develop clinical audit initiatives, lead on service improvements for users and carers (increasing PREM & CREM completion), and conduct clinical inductions for new clinicians
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videosRecruitment - YouTube
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Please see attached Job Description for more detailed duties of the role.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Jun 2025
Join ourWest Kent Liaison Psychiatry Serviceas aLiaison Psychiatry Senior PractitioneratTunbridge Wells Hospital. This dynamic role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide vital hospital-based mental health care within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
You'll be responsible for urgent and routine referrals, complex assessments, and managing diverse mental health needs in a general hospital setting. A key part of the role involves teaching and supporting acute hospital colleagues to enhance their mental health understanding and promote holistic care. You'll also ensure service targets and quality standards are met, utilizing IT systems for documentation.
We're seeking a proactive, collaborative individual committed to quality improvement, who embodiespatient-centred care, compassion, empathy, respect, and dignity. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals experiencing mental health challenges, we encourage you to apply.
• As a crucial Liaison Psychiatry team member, you'll combine expert clinical practice with leadership.
• You'll assess and respond to acute hospital referrals, adhering to CORE24 standards (1-hour triage, 4-hour full assessment).
• Your responsibilities include comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments for various mental health conditions.
• You'll manage complex caseloads of clients with co-morbid physical and mental illnesses.
• Expert risk assessment and management, including safeguarding processes, are essential.
• You'll also address situations where social needs outweigh mental or physical health needs, coordinating care plans.
• A key aspect is providing specialist assessment and intervention for adults (18+) with co-morbid illness.
• You'll act as an educational resource, offering training, and advice to acute hospital staff and liaison psychiatry colleagues on mental health crises in all age groups
• You'll foster close working relationships with acute hospital teams and Kent and Medway Partnership Trust.
• You'll provide clinical supervision for Band 6 practitioners and support their development.
• You'll also assist in leading change processes for LPS accreditation and CORE24 service delivery
• You'll lead in a specific clinical area (e.g., neurodiversity, substance misuse, dementia/delirium, self-harm)
• You'll develop clinical audit initiatives, lead on service improvements for users and carers (increasing PREM & CREM completion), and conduct clinical inductions for new clinicians
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videosRecruitment - YouTube
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Please see attached Job Description for more detailed duties of the role.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Jun 2025
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